After takin' a swig o' grog, Erik Funkenbusch belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:24 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Doug Mentohl belched out
>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> From: Bill Gates
>>>
>>> Some people like to suggest that developers were confused about whether
>>> OS/2 or Windows would succeed. Microsoft certainly didn't have a crystal
>>> ball on this. We shipped Excel well before 1/2/3 shipped. We shipped
>>> Word way before anyone except Describe shipped a Word processor. Other
>>> than IBM we lost more money on OS/2 than anyone lese in both systems and
>>> applications. Fortunately it is not hard to retarget a program written
>>> for one graphical platform to another and a number of libraries were
>>> available to make the task very straightforward ..
>>
>> More revisionism from Bill Gates.
>
> So wait... it's ok to rely on internal emails as a source of facts when
> they agree with your agenda, but if you disagree with them then they're not
> true?
What the fsck are you talking about?
How does a bit of Bill Gates' self-stroking spreadsheet and word-processor
fantasy negate the voluminous emails about nefarious Microsoft tactics?
http://dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WordStar.htm
It has nothing to do with agreement or disagreement, Erik. Stop painting as
that. This stuff is in the historical records.
Why don't you stop wasting time in COLA and do an annotated comparison of
the 1995 versus the 1996 versions of Bill Gates prophetic tome, "The Road
Ahead"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead
After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates
recognized that the Internet was gaining the critical mass needed to
drive it to dominance, and on December 7, 1995 -- just weeks after
the release of the book -- he redirected Microsoft to become an
Internet-focused company. Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several
months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on
the Internet. The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a
trade paperback.
Why do you think Ray Noorda called him "Pearly" Gates?
Ah, sigmonster pops up!
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History, n.:
Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we
learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from
what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
-- Chad C. Mulligan, "The Hipcrime Vocab"
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